Hemington Fields House (now Hemington House) was built around 1835. It’s near Sawley (on Tamworth Road, about ½ mile past Harrington Bridge) but in Hemington parish. It was built circa 1830-40 and is now Grade II listed. It may have been built for John and Ann Smith, who married in 1831. Probably on land owned by her father, William Simpkins. Around 1850 the Smiths moved to Sawley and were replaced by Joseph and Mary Chambers , who’d moved from a farm at Wilne. After Joseph died in 1856, Mary continued to run it with her children. They sold up in 1876 and moved to Idridgehay, near Wirksworth. They were replaced at Hemington Fields by George William Sanford, a young farmer from Warwickshire, but he sold up in 1886 and retired to live in Bondgate, Castle Donington. The next tenant was Thomas Milnes, who stayed until the early 1900s. By 1907 a Miss Poyser was at Hemington House, advertising for a maid of about 16 years. She may have been one of the daughters of John Poyser (1845-1920) a farmer in Shardlow. John was the tenant at Shardlow House, and then Home Farm. In 1910 John’s oldest son, William Poyser (born […]
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